Prosecutor: Klamath County double homicide over drugs, not horses

A prosecutor says two men from the San Francisco Bay Area who were shot to death and buried on a ranch in southern Oregon were after drugs, not horses.

Klamath County Deputy District Attorney Sharon Forster told the Herald and News the investigation indicates there were never any horses involved in the deal.

The bodies of 32-year-old Everardo Mendez-Ceja of Richmond, Calif., and 38-year-old Ricardo Jauregui of Oakley, Calif., were found Oct. 18 buried on a ranch outside Bonanza. Jauregui's burned-out truck was found six miles away.

Their families told authorities they had gone to Oregon to buy horses.

Forster says investigators are looking for a third man, named Joaquin Lopez, who lived outside Bonanza.